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Herwig van Staa: ''The Congress needs to translate its proposals into specific activities on the ground''

Herwig van Staa: ''The Congress needs to translate its proposals into specific activities on the ground''[19/03/2013]

Opening the 24th session, on 19 March 2013, Congress President Herwig van Staa (PPE/CCE, Austria) underlined that Europe continues to face multiple crises of the economy, institutions of governance, public confidence, and finally, of values and commitment to democratic processes. “Our action priorities must focus on responding to these multiple crises,” he stressed, adding that the Congress is becoming more operational in order to translate its recommendations into specific activities through cooperation programmes – such as the ones for Albania, Ukraine, Morocco and Tunisia. President van Staa insisted on the need to develop dialogue with national as well as local and regional authorities to propose a concrete follow-up to the problems identified during the Congress monitoring, election observation and post-monitoring.